Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rude blow from Washington filled the air with lamentations, explanations and evasions. An Internal Revenue Bureau spokesman unofficially explained the apparent reversal of the earlier ruling by pointing out that the Amos 'n' Andy transaction was a transfer of real property, since the show presumably could go on forever, even after the death of its originators (Charles Correll & Freeman Gosden). But the Jack Benny Show, without Benny, would undoubtedly collapse; therefore, Benny's personal services, rather than his real property, are involved...
Some authorities on trypanosomiasis believe that Antrycide has not been tested enough, but last week all food-conscious Britain was cheering the empire-building drug. The Colonial Office predicted that African cattle raising will show positive improvement in four years and large-scale development in ten years. Said the Daily Mirror: "British Africa can become the largest meat-producing area in the world...
...Bakers. In the unparalleled production marathon of 1948, many a U.S. businessman marched in seven-league boots. Charles E. Wilson's General Motors turned in the biggest profits of any single U.S. company (estimated $425 million), and by tying wage increases to the cost of living, showed a statesmanlike concept of management-labor relations. Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery put on his own special one-man show; since midyear, he had fired or accepted the resignations of his president and seven other executives, but he still turned in the biggest profits (about $65 million) in "Monkey" Ward...
Divorced. By Gloria Swanson, 49, siren of the silent screen (now making a comeback as mistress of ceremonies on a television show): fifth husband William M. Davey, 65, Wall Street yachtsman; after three years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Originally a play, and once before produced as a movie,* the new version of the story resembles a photographed stage show. Most of the action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect...